The attached files contain data used in: Bromaghin, J. F., Budge, S. M., Thiemann, G. W. and Rode, K. D. Exploring the sensitivity of quantitative fatty acid signature analysis to assumption violations. In press in Methods in Ecology and Evolution. They are fatty acid data expressed as mass percent of total FA. The original citations are indicated in the column entitled -Source-. The appropriate references are, as follows:


Budge, S. M., Iverson, S. J., Bowen, W. D and Ackman, R. G. 2002. Among- and within-species variability in the fatty acid signatures of marine fish and invertebrates on the Scotian Shelf, Georges Bank, and southern Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 59: 886-898.

Budge, S. M., Springer, A. M., Iverson, S. J. and Sheffield, G. 2007. Fatty acid biomarkers reveal niche separation in an arctic benthic food web. Marine Ecology Progress Series 336: 305-309. 

Budge, S.M., Springer, A.M., Iverson, S.J., Sheffield, G. and Rosa, C. 2008. Blubber fatty acid composition of bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus: implications for diet assessment and ecosystem monitoring. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 359: 40-46.

Cooper, M.H., Budge, S.M., Springer, A.M. and Sheffield, G. 2009. Resource partitioning by sympatric pagophilic seals in Alaska: monitoring effects of climate variation with fatty acids. Polar Biology 32: 1137-1145. doi: 10.1007/s00300-009-0614-5.

Thiemann, G. W., Iverson, S. J. and Stirling, I. 2008. Variation in blubber fatty acid composition among marine mammals in the Canadian Arctic. Marine Mammal Science 24: 91-111. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2007.00165.x